What you feed your chicken /allergies

[The Happster]

Yikes!! I don’t feed my chickens nuts! I don’t think those are good food items to give them as it is!

Nuts are fine for chickens.
As long as you aren't selling eggs to anyone who is allergic.
I'd imagine they'd have to eat a fair amount to cause an allergic reaction like that.

Apple seeds are toxic, but they aren't going to be getting enough to kill them.
Tomatoes and potatoes can be toxic.
They say don't give your chickens any scraps you wouldn't eat yourself. That would include raw potatoes, apple seeds and underripe tomatoes.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I am not certain the allergens produced by nuts survive the chickens digestive and metabolic processes to become part of eggs. Gluten's from wheat do not survive.

I do think it is useful to be aware of the possibility. I also believe that it is possible to have a secondary allergic reaction such as this. For example, my good friend breast fed her baby. The baby always was irritable and had severe eczema. They tested the baby and she was allergic to dairy, soy, and eggs. Mom cut all of those out of her diet (no elimination diet, she just cut it out until she stopped breast feeding) and the baby’s reactions cleared up. Fast forward ten years later, the girl can now eat those foods so thankfully she did grow out of her allergies.

 

[clickchicks]

Interesting, there actually was a study done on this:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.9b03218

The results of a study that fed soy and peanut heavy diets to both laying and meat birds:

"Peanut and soy proteins were undetected in all pooled egg samples and individual chicken breast meat samples using immunoblotting techniques with rabbit antipeanut agglutinin and rabbit antisoy antibodies. Moreover, quantitative ELISA allergen detection methods determined all pooled egg samples and individual meat samples as “not containing” peanut or soy allergens."

Its just one study and the conditions used to measure here could be different from what this person was doing.

Could it also be possible that a person feeding a diet high in nuts also contaminated the shells of the eggs while handing? I imagine if its a regular part of the feed, the birds and the owner could have particles of the allergen on them that transferred.

 

[DogAndCat36]

If you feed your chicken nuts you need to disclose that. I bought farm eggs and had a terrible reaction. I thought I developed an allergy to eggs I went to the doctor and was tested... not allergic . Didn’t make sence ... so I thought must be something else. Kept eating the eggs and was covered in hives. Later found out the chickens had been fed nuts. I have a severe but allergy. The palms of my hands looked like burnt skin. View attachment 2285738

How is that possible?
I'm allergic to hay and still drink milk from cows and I'm allergic to pollen and my chickens pig out on flowers and their eggs are fine. They even can eat a bit of banna which swells me up and I still don't get to reaction when eating their eggs.
Maybe the person ate PB&J and then touched the egg. The eggs couldn't of done that.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Interesting, there actually was a study done on this:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.9b03218

The results of a study that fed soy and peanut heavy diets to both laying and meat birds:

"Peanut and soy proteins were undetected in all pooled egg samples and individual chicken breast meat samples using immunoblotting techniques with rabbit antipeanut agglutinin and rabbit antisoy antibodies. Moreover, quantitative ELISA allergen detection methods determined all pooled egg samples and individual meat samples as “not containing” peanut or soy allergens."

Its just one study and the conditions used to measure here could be different from what this person was doing.

Could it also be possible that a person feeding a diet high in nuts also contaminated the shells of the eggs while handing? I imagine if its a regular part of the feed, the birds and the owner could have particles of the allergen on them that transferred.

It would be expensive to make chickens have half of their diets consisting of nuts.

 

[centrarchid]

Interesting, there actually was a study done on this:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.9b03218

The results of a study that fed soy and peanut heavy diets to both laying and meat birds:

"Peanut and soy proteins were undetected in all pooled egg samples and individual chicken breast meat samples using immunoblotting techniques with rabbit antipeanut agglutinin and rabbit antisoy antibodies. Moreover, quantitative ELISA allergen detection methods determined all pooled egg samples and individual meat samples as “not containing” peanut or soy allergens."

Its just one study and the conditions used to measure here could be different from what this person was doing.

Could it also be possible that a person feeding a diet high in nuts also contaminated the shells of the eggs while handing? I imagine if its a regular part of the feed, the birds and the owner could have particles of the allergen on them that transferred.

I am looking about for similar information. Closest thing to refute is the following:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16889284/

The allergen in involved produced by a parasite that may have particular need for proteins that resist breakdown by host, and that may persist in consumers of that host.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

How is that possible?
I'm allergic to hay and still drink milk from cows and I'm allergic to pollen and my chickens pig out on flowers and their eggs are fine. They even can eat a bit of banna which swells me up and I still don't get to reaction when eating their eggs.
Maybe the person ate PB&J and then touched the egg. The eggs couldn't of done that.

No idea if it’s possible or not, but “somethings don’t pass through some animals” doesn’t mean “no thing pass through any animal”.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

It would be expensive to make chickens have half of their diets consisting of nuts.

Yes...it’d be...wait for it...,NUTS.

 

[DogAndCat36]

No idea if it’s possible or not, but “somethings don’t pass through some animals” doesn’t mean “no thing pass through any animal”.

Ok. But I still think that it is pretty weird to get sick of an egg containing peanuts.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Yes...it’d be...wait for it...,NUTS.